Population variation of Artemisia sieberi in Iran based on quantitative characters of leaf and seed and their relationships with habitat features

Thirty-four populations of Artemisia sieberi from 10 provinces of Iran were investigated with respect to quantitative characteristics of leaves and seeds. In each habitat, five plants were randomly selected and some branches were harvested for studying leaf characteristics in spring and seed characteristic in autumn. Principle features of climate and soil were studied in each habitat. In order to grouping populations cluster analysis was carried out with Complete Method and Euclidian distance in Minitab software. Climate, altitude and soil features were compared by variance analysis among groups.